Category: Routing & Switching

Chances are that you’ve seen the classic Saturday Night Live skit “More Cowbell,” starring Will Farrell and Christopher Walken. It’s been rated one of the Top 10 best skits of all time on SNL. The skit originally aired on April 8, 2000.

Given all the work leading up to a training session—assessing business and learner needs, instructional design, slide creation, and so on—it would be easy to assume that the preparation process is well understood and consistently executed. And it is, up to a certain point. However, there is often one step in the process where it is not. That is the step between design and delivery.

By 2020, 50 percent of the workforce will be millennials. Is your organization ready to tap into this pipeline of learners?

There’s a video of a six-year-old boy on YouTube playing Guitar Hero. This kid was blazing fast and didn’t miss a note through the entire song. He certainly didn’t read the directions and then master the steps as he progressed through the more advanced stages. How exactly did he do it?

Traditional onboarding and classroom style training is expensive and as a result, organizations continually pressure trainers and managers for shorter training schedules.